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SOLUTION 



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J. A. CUNNINGHAM. 



l.OLisviLLE, Ky.: 
F. A. Crimp, Printer axd Hinder. 






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F. A. Crump, Printer and Bindeil. 






Copyright, 1889. 

— BY— 
J. A. CUXNINGHAM, 



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SOLUTION OP THE MRO PROBLEM. 

In building structures of the thought as 
well as temples of stone, it is absolutely 
necessary to secure stability, and therefore 
to look well after the foundation ; hence in 
attempting a solution of the dificult Negro 
■problem^ now disturbing the minds of the 
intelligent people of both North and South 
America, I wish to particularly call the at- 
tention of the reader, to a great and glorious 
fact^ known to many, yet thought of, by 
but few, upon which as an invulnerable basis, 
I shall build my solution of one of the most 
difficult questions of modern times. This 
great fact is, that God exercises an over- 
ruling providence over the affairs of men 
and nations ; notwithstanding the granted 
prerogative of freedom of action, given to 
all created intelligent beings. Now while 
this is a known fact, it seems to be very 
generally overlooked by human creatures, 
whose conduct indicates that they think 
they are running the affairs of this old earth 
to suit themselves, without guidance or con- 



4 Solution of the Negro Problem. 

stniint. But there is no questioning the 
fact, by those well acquainted with the 
Scriptures, that God exercises a providence 
over the affairs of men and nations ; not how- 
ever to that extent, that w^ould destroy yr^r^ 
moral agency^ and cancel the generalh^ 
acknowledged condition of accountability ; 
nevertheless, an undeniable, over-ruling, 
providence; that is possibly accomplished 
by placing guiding influences in advance of 
our understandings, as his unlimited wisdom 
certainly enables Flim to do ; since He evi- 
dently sees and knows beforehand ; at least 
the trend of individuals and nations, and 
He can therefore turn us hither and tither, 
by circumstances, and use us as his instru- 
mentalities, without destroying our choice 
of action. Just as human beings, knowing 
the nature and disposition of the lower ani- 
mals, and seeing their movements from a 
distance, can turn them one v/ay or the 
other, without taking from them their liber- 
ty of action, by placing in their, course ob- 
stacles calculated to influence their move- 
ments. For with all our boasted freedom 
of action, w^c cannot possibly be above, nor 
b'^yond cur surrounding circumstances, and 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 5 

conditions of life ; which are certainly in the 
keeping of Ah-nighty God. Many passages 
of the Holy Bible, might be called into ser- 
vice, to establish the great fact of the over- 
ruling providence and government of the 
God-head ; and to demonstrate the conclu- 
sion, that this old earth oi ours, with its 
millions of diversified inhabitants, is not 
going helter skelter^ like a ship upon the 
ocean without pilot or rudder ; but upon the 
contrary, that the Lord God is at the helm^ 
of even the affairs of men and nations, as 
well as that of the entire universe ; and that 
while under his long suffering, and wonder- 
ful loving-kindness, He necessarily permits 
evil, in harmony with the granted prerogative 
of liberty of action, nevertheless, his grand 
and glorious purposes in creation and govern- 
ment, shall m the consummation of ages, be- 
come wholly established. We should the 
more readily come to this conclusion, since 
to reason othervv^ise, would be to acknow- 
ledge that the gigantic rebellion of Satan 
and his followers, against the sovereign 
authority of Almighty God, will be more or 
less successful in the distant future ; while 
the Scriptures indicate that it will prove the 



6 Solution of the Negro Problem. 

grandest failure, of all failures, and the most 
deplorable mistake, of all mistakes. Every 
intelligent human being, who will carefully 
read the wonderful book of the Prophet 
Daniel, must necessarily be most thoroughly 
convinced of the philosoply of the fact that 
God exercises a providence over the affairs 
of men and nations ; since the prophecies 
therein made known, will not admit of any 
other hypothesis, than that God rules, and 
will certainly carry out his purposes. 

The vision of king Nebuchadnezzar, of 
the great image, representing according to 
the interpretation of Daniel, the four great 
universal empires of the civilized world ; 
namely, the Babylonian empire, or the gold ; 
the Medo-Persian empire, or the silver ; the 
Grecian empire, or the brass ; and the 
Roman empire, or the iron ; together with 
Daniel's vision of ihe/oiLr beasts, mentioned 
in chapter seventh, standing for the same four 
great powers ; leave no possible foundation 
for a doubt, as to the reliability of the posi- 
tion, that God exercises a providence over 
the affairs of men and nations. Scholars 
differ, as to whether the stone k.ngdom, or 
the fifth universal empire in the vision of 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 7 

king Nebuchadnezzar, has reference to the 
spiritual kingdom of Christ upon earth, or 
to a poHtical government in the hands of 
God's people, founded upon the principles of 
liberty, equality before law, and universal 
justice ; or such a government as our great 
North American Republic would be, if it 
covered the entire world as one power, or in 
principle, under a brother-hood of Repub- 
lics ; yet there are insurmountable reasons 
for concluding that the latter hypothesis is 
the correct one ; as for instance, the kingdom 
of Christ, being a spiritual kingdom, can 
never destroy and supplant political govern- 
ments, as the stone kingdom is to do accord- 
ing to the vision, and its interpretation ; and 
furthermore, the kingdom of Christ was es- 
tablished on earth during the glory of the 
Roanm empire, or the iron kingdom, and 
not during "the days of these kings," or the 
ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire 
was to be divided, according to the vision, 
and into which it was divided, according to 
history. 

Now the great government of the United 
States of America was established by the 
help, and under the providence of Almighty 



8 Solution cf the Negro Problem. 

God, during *' the days of these kings," as 
required by the vision ; and therefore, it is 
certainly very reasonable to conclude, that 
our great republican form government in 
the hands of God's people, and founded 
upon the principles of liberty, equality be- 
fore law, and universal justice, is the be- 
ginnmg of the stone kingdom in the vision ; 
and hence destined to grow and expand un- 
til all other forms of government fall before 
it, and the entire world passes into the 
glorious embrace of a grand brotherhood of 
Republics, with a national congress of arbi- 
tration, for the adjustment of all possible 
questions of difference, instead of resorting 
to arms, and the power of might, regard- 
less of the dictates of justice ; as has often 
been the case in past ages. That there is 
to be such a universal empire as the stone 
kingdom interpreted politically, there is no 
question ; for we learn from Isaiah, that after 
the Mesiah shall have established his king- 
dom upon earth ; that " out of Zion shall go 
forth instruction, and the word of the Lord 
from Jerusalem. And He shall judge be- 
tween the nations, and shall reprove many 
peoples ; and they shall beat their swords 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 9 

into plowshears, and their spears into prun- 
ing hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword 
against nation, neither shall they learn war 
any more." 

All this most clearly refers to the glorious 
reign of Christ upon earth a thousand pro- 
phetic years, through the spirituality of his 
people, which is mentioned in the visions of 
the beloved Apostle Saint John. Wherefore, 
the position that God exercises a providence 
over the affairs of men and nations, may be 
taken as an undeniable fact ; and I there- 
fore proceed to build my solution of the 
difficult Negro problem upon this glorious 
fact, as a foundation invulnerable, and wor- 
thy of a more magnificent temple of reason- 
ing than I can possibly erect. Surely it is 
unquestionably philosophical, that since 
there is to be a fifth universal political em- 
pire, and a general reign of peace among 
the nations a thousand years, or three hun- 
dred and sixty thousand Hebraic years ; and 
since it is written in the sacred Scriptures 
that " every knee shall bow to me, and every 
tongue shall confess to God ;"(Rom.xiv.ll) ; 
and again, in speaking of Christ, it is de- 
clared that, *' there is none other name un- 



10 Solution of the Negro Problem. 

fler heaven given among men, v/hereby v/e 
must be saved;" (Acts iv. 12); it certainly 
follows, that under the providence of Al- 
mighty God, there will not only be formed 
a fifth universal political government, but 
that God will gradually civilize, enlighten, 
and Christianize the heathen nations^ includ- 
ing the black inhabitants of benig^hted Af- 
rica, and make them ready for the great 
change of elevation and glorification des- 
tined to overtake the multitudes of old 
mother earth in future years, possibly not 
very far distant. For notwithstanding there 
are some scriptures which certainly indicate 
that the period of human probation probably 
extends to the day of judgment — as maybe 
inferred from the teaching of Matt. xii. 32, 
and I. Peter iii. 19 — yet there is no ques- 
tioning the conclusion, that it is the will and 
purpose of Almighty God, that the entire 
human race shall become civilized, enlight- 
ened and Christianized in this bodily life ; 
since the commission of Jesus Christ says, 
^' Go ye into all the world and preach the gos- 
pel to the whole creation." (Mark xvi. 15). 
And now, since God in his providence and 
loving kindness, has under his charge the 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 11 

civilization, enlightenment and Christiani- 
jzation of the world, it certainly becomes ex- 
ceedingly interesting to discover the means 
l)y which he will redeem the benighted Af- 
rican race from its deplorable state of bar- 
barity, beastiality and cannibalism. It is 
unquestionably well known that God works 
through means ; and where human agency 
under his all-wise guidance is adequate to 
accomplish the ends to be attained, no 
higher agency, such as angelic, is called 
to the work, to a greater extent than possibly 
to guide the human means. This fact being 
undeniable, it philosophically follows, that 
God will use human agenc}' in the redemp- 
tion of the heathen nations of the world, in- 
cluding the black people, from their lament- 
able ignorance, superstition and barbarism. 
And, therefore, it is certainly not an un- 
reasonable h^^pothesis, that God, seeing the 
deplorable condition of the Hamitic tribes 
of Africa, and knowing the improbability, if 
not impossibilit}^ that members of the white 
race will ever locate permanently in the 
heart of this dark continent, and become 
the means of civilizing, enlightening and 
Christianizing its inhabitants, owing to the 



lli Soruiion of the Negro Problem. 

intolerableness of the climate of Central 
Africa for Europeans ; saw, that in order 
to prepare a suitable means for the emanci- 
pation of this vast continent from the bonds 
of ignorance, beastiality and cannibalism, 
it was necessary that a portion of the black 
race should be carried from the dark conti- 
nent to other countries, and particularly to 
the United States of North America, so that 
the descendants of these transported blacks 
might in the course of centuries become a 
special means under Almighty God's ben- 
evolent providence, of civilizing, enlight- 
ening and Christianizing the inhabitants of 
the mother country ; and thereby preparing 
it for the coming reign of the Christian re- 
ligion, a thousand prophetic years. Upon 
this sublime hypothesis, as a foundation, we 
must necessarily conclude that the African 
slave trade of past years, constituted the first 
step under the providence of God toward 
the final and future elevation and Christian- 
ization of the black race at large ; for God 
often uses the wickedness of the wicked, 
and the ambition of the worldly, as in the 
case of Pharaoh of Egypt, to accomplish 
his glorious purposes of benevolence, and 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 13 

to vindicate his holy name upon the face of 
mother earth. 

And following up the theory herein ad- 
vanced, we must conclude that the emanci- 
pation of the Africans of the two Americas 
from the bonds of slavery, certainly consti- 
tuted the second step under the providence 
of God, toward the preparation of the special 
means being prepared before our eyes, and 
by our assistance, for the elevation and glo- 
rification of even benighted Africa. This 
step in the grand purpose of God could not, 
however, be accomplished in the United 
States without great tribulation and blood- 
shed ; because the people of the South, 
where slavery was found to be profitable, 
had taught themselves to believe that the 
servitude of Canaan, predicted by father 
Noah, should be understood, metonymically, 
as applicable to the entire Hamitic race. 
This idea they had learned by reading 
Preist's Bible Defense of Slavery, and books 
of like character — all based upon the falla- 
cious hypothesis that Noah used the name 
Canaan metonymically for Ham, when he 
said, *' Cursed be Canaan : a servant of ser- 
A-ants shall he be unto his brethren." This 



14 Solution of the Negro Problem. 

theory for the interpretation of father 
Noah's curse and prophecy, relative to Ca- 
naan, is certainly without philosophical foun- 
dation ; for the name Ham could have been 
used metonymically for his descendants, 
with some propriety ; but there is not a 
particle of philosophy in concluding that 
the name Canaan was so used. The hy- 
pothesis was utterly absurd — manufactured 
to attempt to bolster up the great iniquity 
of African slavery. This curse and prophecy 
of the patriarch Noah, was fulfilled in the 
land of Palestine, the Canaanites having 
been there held in bondage by their breth- 
ren, the Jews. And the second step, under 
the providence of God, having been brought 
to consummation through great tribulation — ■ 
the third step, or the preparation of the 
blacks of the two Americas for the work 
God intends them to accomplish, is progress- 
ing rapidly, even wonderfully, taking into 
careful consideration the deplorable condi- 
tion of the multitudes of emancipated slaves. 
This preparation of the separated blacks, is 
to become civilized, enlightened and Chris- 
tianized themselves, and capable of self- 
government and advancement — ready as a 



Solution of the Negro Froble?n. 15 

specially prepared host, under the provi- 
dence of Almighty God, to lay hold of the 
mother country, wrench it from the bonds of 
superstition, ignorance and cannibalism; and 
cause it to blossom in the near future with 
cultivated fields and orchards, flourishing 
cities and colleges, and a net work of rail- 
roads, with their thundering locomotives, 
drawing the commodities of commerce from 
ocean to ocean ; accompanied by the light- 
ning of heaven, bearing the news of the 
world from land to land, and zone. to zone, 
filling old mother earth with joy and glad- 
ness, never before to mortals known. For if 
the emancipated blacks had been sent to the 
mother country, at the time of their libera- 
tion, they would certainly have become en- 
gulfed into all the lam.entable barbarism now 
enshrouding the dark continent, like a pall 
of condemnation and death. They must first 
become elevated, and, in a measure, regen- 
erated; with their faces turned tovvard heaven 
and better things, and their backs towa'rd 
hell, with all its diabolical darkness aod woe, 
before they can be considered a ready means 
under the providence of God, of wresting 
their own native land from the grasp of 



IG Solution rf the Negro Problem. 

previously unknown ignorance and super- 
stition, that now hold it in an anacondara] 
embrace of death. 

Surely there are no grounds for conclud- 
ing that the third step toward the solution oi 
the great problem under consideration, ac- 
cording to our theory, will not soon become 
consummated ; w^hen events will certainly 
happen under the providence of God, that 
will necessitate the fourth step, that is, the re- 
turn of the blacks of the two Americas to the 
mother country ; not of their own accord as a 
people, but at the dictation and expense of the 
white population. For since by amendment ol 
the constitution of the United States, the 
blacks have been made equal to the whites 
before the law of the land, and given the 
elective franchise ; and since many of the 
blacks bewildered by this glory, are trying 
to force social equality upon the whites ; 
race wars are inevitable. And in the course 
of a few years; when the blacks in all the 
extreme southern states shall so out number 
the whites, as to be able to fill all state, 
county, and city offices from their own peo- 
ple, these wars will assume such vast pro- 
portions, that both races will become con- 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 17 

vinced, that it is not best, nor the will of God, 
that^ they shall try to live together as one 
people : when the fourth step according to 
our theory will become a reality ; and the 
accumulation of millions of surplus treasury 
in the vaults of the United States govern- 
ment, may under the providence of God ; be 
building up for this very benevolent purpose. 
Even waiving the hypothesis that Almighty 
God is preparing the emancipated blacks 
of the two Americas, as a special means to 
be used by Him in the elevation and glori- 
fication of benighted Africa ; it nevertheless 
becomes the imperative duty of the liberated 
blacks of these two countries as soon as they 
become educated and capable of self-govern- 
ment and advacem.ent, to return to their own 
native land and take charge of it ; to form a 
great African Republic, patterned after the 
United States of America ; to introduce 
civilization into the very heart of the dark 
continent; to clear up its jungles, destroy 
its wild beasts and huge serpents, drain its 
low lands, irrigate its deserts ; and in short, 
to make it flourish with all the glorious 
works of modern civilization; and become 
ready for the beginning of the millenial 



18 Solution of the Negro Problem. 

reign of Christ on earth a thousand pro- 
phetic years through the spirituahty of his 
people, who will govern the enlightened 
nations of the earth during this glorious era 
of time. Such is undoubtedly the duty of 
the blacks of the two Americas, regardless 
of the probability that return to Aferica 
may become a necessity to insure their own 
preservation. For there is no use to attempt 
to hide the fact, that neither social equality 
between the whites and the blacks, nor 
amalgamation will be tolerated in this coun- 
try ; and it is the consummation of stupidity 
for the blacks to dream of anything tending 
to these ends. Neither should they regard 
the two American continents as their home, 
since they have a grand continent of their 
own, allotted to their forefathers in ancient 
times, by the division of the world among 
the descendants of father Noah. Surely 
there is no foundation for a doubt that un- 
der the over-ruling providence and benevo- 
lence of Almighty God, the blacks of the two 
Americas are to return, and to be returned 
to their own native land. And since the 
forefathers of the whites, are to blame for 
the forcible transportation of the forefathers 



Solution of the Negro Problem. 19 

of the blacks, to these two contries as slaves; 
it is certainly nothing short of justice, that 
the children of the former, should bear the 
burden of returningf the children of the 
latter, to their own universally acknowledged 
country. And regardless of whether the 
idea already advanced, is correct or other- 
wise, that the accumulation of the millions 
of surplus treasury in the vaults of the 
United States government, is possibly one 
of the providences of Almighty God, to 
enable the white people of this country to 
transport the blacks to Africa, when they 
see that to do so is a necessity; we are cer- 
tainly safe in saying that even to day the 
last dollar of this money would be voted to 
this benevolent purpose, if the proposition 
was legally put before the country. And 
looking at this profound solution of the in- 
teresting Neorro -problem from all stand- 
points, it can not be denied that the solution, 
is certainly philosophical ; and since it would 
be greatly to the advantage of the black 
race at large, as well as beneficial to the 
entire world ; and since it is evidently in 
harmony with the grand purposes of Al- 
mighty God, it is certainly to be most fondly 
hoped that the hypothesis may speedily 
prove to be wholly correct. 



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